Guide to the Charles Thomas-Perry Photographs

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas. University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives. Box 457010 4505 S. Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-7010 [email protected] Guide to the Charles Thomas-Perry Photographs

Table of Contents

Summary Information ...... 3 Scope and Contents Note ...... 3 Arrangement ...... 4 Administrative Information ...... 4 Related Materials ...... 4 Names and Subjects ...... 5 Collection Inventory ...... 5

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Summary Information

Repository: University of Nevada, Las Vegas. University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives. Creator: Thomas, Charles W. Contributor: Thomas-Perry, Lorraine, 1910-1984 Title: Charles Thomas-Perry Photographs ID: PH-00150 Date [inclusive]: 1900-1940 Physical Description: 1.1 Linear Feet (5 hanging folders and 1 box) Language of the English Material: Abstract: The Charles Thomas-Perry Photographs depict towns in Southern and Central Nevada from 1900 to 1940. The photographs primarily depict the Thomas and Perry families in Beatty, Nevada and Pioneer, Nevada, including Charles Thomas's store and their family homes. The photographs also depict buildings, celebrations, children, and the towns of Searchlight, Rhyolite, Goodsprings, and Goldfield, Nevada. Preferred Citation Charles Thomas-Perry Photographs, 1900-1940. PH-00150. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Scope and Contents Note

The Charles Thomas-Perry Photographs depict towns in Southern and Central Nevada from 1900 to 1940. The photographs primarily depict the Thomas and Perry families in Beatty, Nevada and Pioneer, Nevada, including Charles Thomas's store and their family homes. The photographs also depict buildings, celebrations, children, and the towns of Searchlight, Rhyolite, Goodsprings, and Goldfield, Nevada.

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Arrangement

Materials remain in original order.

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Administrative Information

Access The collection is open for research. Portions of this collection are digital and available online. Physical use copies are available in the Photograph Collections cabinets. Publication Rights Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish. Acquisition Note Materials were donated in 1983 by Lorraine Thomas-Perry; accession number 1983-23. Processing Note Materials were processed by Special Collections staff. In 2015, as part of a legacy finding aid conversion project, Lindsay Oden wrote the collection description in compliance with current professional standards.

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Related Materials

Related Materials The following resources may provide additional information related to the materials in this collection: Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection, 1880-1990. PH-00221. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. Central Nevada Historical Society Photograph Collection, 1880-1982. PH-00082. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Names and Subjects

• Beatty (Nev.) • Searchlight (Nev.) • Rhyolite (Nev.) • Pioneer (Nev.) • Goodsprings (Nev.) • Photographs

Collection Inventory

Title/Description Containers "Scotty" and wife in Beatty, Nevada, undated (0080) folder 01

Leadfield, Nevada, 1926 March (0081) folder 01

Leadfield, Nevada, from Titus , undated (0082) folder 01

Abandoned shacks in Rhyolite, Nevada, approximately 1920 (0083) folder 01

Deserted buildings on Main Street, Rhyolite, Nevada, approximately 1920 (0084) folder 01

Northumberland Mill, Nevada, undated (0001) (view online) folder 02

Northumberland Mill, Nevada, undated (0002) (view online) folder 02

Northumberland Mill, terraced hillside, undated (0003) (view online) folder 02

Northumberland Mill, Nevada, undated (0004) (view online) folder 02

Road going into the Northumberland Mill, undated (0005) (view online) folder 02

Northumberland Mill, terraced hills, undated (0006) (view online) folder 02

1938 Ford in the Amargosa River bed near Beatty, Nevada, 1938 March 03 (0007) folder 02

American-Electro Thermo Company workers, Carrara, Nevada: painter, Bert Miller, folder 02 George Probasco, Robert Ginson, Arnold Perry, Paul Payne, L. E. Scott, E. N. Shirley, unidentified, Carl Earl, "Blackie," Aubrey Smith, C. E. Merkel, and A. A. Hall, undated (0008) (view online)

Charles W. Thomas, undated (0009) (view online) folder 02

Postcard: children in buckboard, addressed to Mrs. Ophelia A. Thomas, 1912 January folder 02 17 (0010)

Searchlight, Nevada, undated (0011) (view online) folder 02

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Pioneer, Nevada, undated (0012) folder 03

C. W. Thomas and his store in Searchlight, Nevada, undated (0013) folder 03

Hot Springs, Nevada, undated (0014) folder 03

Thanksgiving banquet at the Pioneer Hotel, Pioneer, Nevada, C. W. Thomas on right, folder 03 1911 November (0015)

Thomas, Phillips, and McGarry in Pioneer, Nevada, undated (0016) folder 03

Charles Thomas standing in front of the Columbia Club in Searchlight, Nevada, folder 03 undated (0017)

Quartette Mine, Searchlight, Nevada, undated (0018) folder 03

Charles Thomas in Brown Grocery or Young's Store, Searchlight, Nevada, undated folder 03 (0019)

Charles Thomas on the porch of his store, undated (0020) folder 03

Pioneer, Nevada, undated (0021) folder 03

Pioneer, Nevada, undated (0022) folder 03

Quartette Mine, Searchlight, Nevada, undated (0023) folder 03

Pioneer Mine, Pioneer, Nevada, undated (0024) folder 03

Mt. Pioneer, undated (0025) folder 03

Picnic, including Louise Aylward Brown, Cy Johnson, Claudia Reidhead, and the folder 03 Jinnys, Beatty, Nevada, 1920 July 04 (0026)

Clown band, Searchlight, Nevada, 1906 July 04 (0027) folder 03

Pioneer Mine, Pioneer, Nevada, undated (0028) folder 03

Charles Thomas and Walter Marks, Pioneer, Nevada, undated (0029) folder 03

Giles family in their car "Geraldine" in Beatty, Nevada: Edith Giles, Joe Horton, folder 03 Edwin Schofield Giles, and Edith Corliss Giles, undated (0030)

Buggy and horses in front of the Hotel Gasoline, Beatty, Nevada, undated (0031) folder 03

Palmer's Warehouse, windmill, and freight team, undated (0032) folder 03

Beatty School class, including teacher Mrs. Polley, undated (0033) folder 03

Exchange Hotel, undated (0034) folder 03

Beatty schoolhouse and children, undated (0035) folder 03

Palmer's Store, Beatty, Nevada, undated (0036) folder 03

Railroad Eating House, Beatty, Nevada, undated (0037) folder 03

Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad water tank, Beatty, Nevada, undated (0038) folder 03

Jesse Christensen's home, Beatty, Nevada, undated (0039) folder 03

Clay Dodson and Joe May driving cattle through Beatty, Nevada, undated (0040) folder 03

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Remick's Saloon, "The Oasis of a Dry Country," Beatty, Nevada, undated (0041) folder 03

Remnants of abandoned saloons, Beatty, Nevada, approximately 1918 (0042) folder 03

Mohawk Saloon, Goldfield, Nevada, undated (0043) folder 03

Horse team and wagon moving a house out of Goldfield, Nevada, undated (0044) folder 03

A. E. Thomas house in Goodsprings, Nevada, with Charles Thomas and Native folder 03 American children, undated (0045)

Unidentified town, undated (0046) folder 04

Unidentified town, undated (0047) folder 04

Frank Williams, undated (0048) folder 04

Frank Williams and Edith Crawford Williams, undated (0049) folder 04

Frank Williams and Edith Crawford Williams at their home, Goodsprings, Nevada, folder 04 1934 (0050)

Drilling contest, Searchlight, Nevada, 1905 July 04 (0051) folder 04

Searchlight and Nipton Freight and Stage Office, undated (0052) folder 04

Virginia Castillo and Lorraine Perry, Venice, , 1931 (0053) folder 04

People swimming, Las Vegas, Nevada, undated (0054) folder 04

People swimming, Las Vegas, Nevada, undated (0055) folder 04

Lorraine Perry and her father, St. Thomas, Nevada, undated (0056) folder 04

Lorraine Perry Thomas sitting on a car, Leadfield Cafe, Leadfield, California, 1930 folder 04 (0057)

Lorraine Perry Thomas on porch of The Big Store, Beatty, Nevada, 1928 (0058) folder 04

Beatty schoolhouse, Beatty, Nevada, 1928 (0059) folder 04

Lorraine Perry's desert home that was moved from Pioneer, undated (0060) folder 04

Beatty, Nevada, 1906 (0061) folder 04

Beatty, Nevada, undated (0062) folder 04

Lorraine Perry's father's store, Beatty, Nevada, undated (0063) folder 04

Beatty, Nevada, during the Leadfield mining boom, 1926 (0064) folder 04

Beatty Town Hall, approximately 1914 (0065) folder 04

Lorraine Perry's father on a hill near Beatty Mountain, undated (0066) folder 04

Californian Hotel, Beatty, Nevada, undated (0067) folder 04

Child with a burro, Beatty, Nevada, (0068) folder 04

Thomas home or Phinney home, Beatty, Nevada, approximately 1921 (0069) folder 04

Owens Lake drying up after the Los Angeles Aqueduct took its water supply, undated folder 05 (0070) - Page 7- Guide to the Charles Thomas-Perry Photographs

Last residents of Rhyolite, Nevada: Mrs. Dryer, her son, and Mr. Lorraine, undated folder 05 (0071)

General Merchandise store and Jess Knight, 1928 (0072) folder 05

Fayle Hotel, Goodsprings, Nevada, 1928 (0073) folder 05

Hotel annex, Fayle Hotel, Goodsprings, Nevada, 1928 (0074) folder 05

Goodsprings, Nevada in winter, 1928 (0075) folder 05

Elderly Mojave woman, Needles, California, undated (0076) folder 05

Native Americans traveling along a trail in Arizona, undated (0077) folder 05

Henny Nielsen Leonard, Lorraine Perry, and Joseph Leonard, Los Angeles, folder 05 California, 1940 (0078)

Rhyolite Ghost Casino in the old railroad depot, approximately 1939 (0079) folder 05

Photo album, probably 1900s box 01

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